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• Colloquium 2022 Program

The Ultimate Mouthful: How The Largest Baleen Whales Feed

Some of the largest baleen whales—such as blue whales, fin whales and humpbacks—fall into a family called rorquals that use an unusual method of feeding. These whales feed on aggregations of zooplankton and fish by lunging with their mouths open wide to tremendous gape angles to force huge volumes of water and prey into their expandable oral cavities. This extreme lunge feeding strategy is facilitated by some of the most bizarre anatomical adaptations, many of which are unique among mammals. This talk will present new insights using tag technology into how the largest vertebrates ever subsist on the smallest food. 

Biography

Goldbogen received his B.S. in Zoology from the University of Texas at Austin, followed by a M.S. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC-San Diego (UCSD), and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He was then awarded a Scripps Postdoctoral Fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, a Governor General’s Gold Medal at UBC, and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Guelph (declined). Goldbogen has received several additional post-degree honors and awards, including both a Terman Fellowship and a Hoagland Award for Teaching Innovation at Stanford University, and a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, Department of Defense, Human Frontier Science Program, MAC3 Philanthropies, Cascadia Research, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund, the International Whaling Commission, and several others.

Goldbogen currently serves as a member of NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Research Activity Panel.  He previously served as Co-director of Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University and as an editorial board member for Functional Ecology.  He has over 100 scholarly publications to date and his work has been featured heavily in various news sources, including the NY Times, LA Times, PBS, BBC, Stanford News, Nature, Discover Magazine, NPR’s Science Friday and the Morning Edition, National Geographic, the Washington Post, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Wired, The Guardian, and many more.